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How is this trending on Show HN? The text is unreadable. The letters lock, unlock and rotate. Can there be a more user hostile way of offering a free preview?
by hoveractive 7y ago
How is this trending on Show HN? The text is unreadable. The letters lock, unlock and rotate. Can there be a more user hostile way of offering a free preview?
From the Show HN guidelines:
> If your work isn't ready for people to try out yet, please don't do a Show HN.
There is clearly no way to try out this book. The "Show HN:" prefix should be removed from the title so that this post can belong to the list of regular posts.
- dang 7y agoAs far as I can tell the gibberish text eventually becomes readable. So the book exists and can be tried out, but with some annoyance. That still qualifies for Show HN. For books, people usually put a free chapter or two up, which is arguably less annoying, but there is room for different approaches. The intention of the "try out" guideline is to make sure that the work actually exists and that people can play with it to get an idea of what's there. It's not intended to force Show HN projects to all be free. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
- viebel 7y agoManning allowed me to provide in pdf the Unit 0 and Unit 1. Unit 0: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/8165fc_091580b11bc742c8830d29b8ebe6eac7.pdf https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/8165fc_091580b11bc742c8830d29... Unit 1: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/8165fc_a165a000ec444796b7e63c290353966e.pdf https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/8165fc_a165a000ec444796b7e63c...